Meals On Wheels of Stark & Wayne Counties is a nonprofit organization that has been serving homebound and nutritionally at risk individuals across the two-county area located in Northeast Ohio for 41 years. The agency was established in 1973 as a senior meal program called The Stark Nutrition Program. In 1997 the agency expanded and completed its own commissary, unique to this area and specifically designed to meet our community's needs. The menu is planned by our staff dietitian and prepared by staff professionals, meeting and exceeding all guidelines recommended by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Over 12 million meals have been prepared and delivered to clients by thousands of community volunteers over the past 41 years. Today, the agency serves 1,300 meals daily, Monday through Friday, including home delivered and congregate dining at 15 of our sites. Volunteers from the community deliver meals throughout the two-county area via 18 distribution sites, covering 60 routes every weekday.

Our agency provides much more than a hot meal. With more than 600 volunteers donating their time every week, we are often a homebound resident's only daily contact, so we try to address any concerns immediately brought to our attention or to the attention of the closest family member or emergency contact. Lives have been saved because of the quick response of dedicated volunteers and staff. We offer peace of mind, as well as nutritional support.

Meals On Wheels of Stark & Wayne Counties' primary focus is to provide nutritional support to the homebound, elderly, and disabled while keeping an eye on the growing need in our community to do even more. The need to help residents continues to grow, regardless of increased costs or decreases in funding. We are poised on the edge of an exciting future, which includes offering services to those under the age of 60 that are struggling with the recent economic hardships, leaving them homebound and in need of nutritional support, and working more closely with the medical community to support their goals of lowering hospital readmission rates caused by lack of nutritional support at home.  As a successful community based organization, we continue to seek opportunities designed to help us assist those people in our community with the greatest need, the hidden hungry.